The Osceola times., 1887-08-13

Or the 4th George Forth, a notorious
burglar and diamond thief, was captured
in Jersey City, n. J.
Os the 4th Mrs. Prajak, q Bohemian
woman, living In the eastern section OF
Baltimore, Nd, drowned her twelve.
months sold child In a bath-tub. After the
child was dead she returned with II 70 her
room and placed IL ON the bed. locking her
self in. She then cut her own throat with
q razor.
/, On the 4th disastrous fire occurred at
Bowling Green, D. The blaze started In q
saloon, and before n could be checked two
| whole squares were swept out and twenty
two houses burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
On the 4th sixth attempt was made 20
burn the New York Zeifuag office. This
time but little damage was done, and the
| fire was put out before the arrival o; the
firemen.
A FIERoE storm struck Sherman, Tex,
on the 9TH, doing considerable damage.
VIOLENT shocks OF earthquake have been
felt at Lsghoaut, Algeria. A number Of
houses were destroyed.
The Chicago boodlers wers all adjudged
guilty by the jury on the night of the 9Th.
Seven were given penitentiary sentences
and the rest fined.
WIN. II. WErBERslL, OF Kansas City,
Mo-, aged thirty six Committed suicide ON
the 9th.
THERE were -four new cases Of cholera
and four deaths st Malta on tho 5th.
FHry tons of rock fell in the eastern end
Of the Cascade tunnel, now building by the
Northern Pacific railroad, on the 4th, kill
ing fonr. men and wounding several others.
II is thought none OF the wounded will die.
THE jury in the celebrated Culhreath
lynching case, at Columbia, S. c., returned
a verdict on the 9Th OF not guilty. The de-
PENDANTS were served so that only two OF
the lynchers--w illiam Parker and Wyatt
Holmes-were on trial, and upon the
announcement of the verdict the States
attorney entered nolie PROSE- as
TO the other thirty defendants.
THE New York police say that Mooney,
who tried to blow up the steamer Queen, is
an ex-Fenian and ex-member Of the Clan.
Na-Gssl, and is believed to have had
hand in the attempt to blow up the local
government building in London and the
Parliament house In Quebec, besides the
explosion on the steamer Guyandotte and
the burning Of the Cromwell line.
MMLBRooK, Graham County, Kas., was
almost destroyed about sundown Of the
4th by straight wind coming from slight
ly west of north. The place contains about
five hundred inhabitants. Only one house,
a residence, escaped serious damage. -Four
persons, one OF them boy three years
old were killed. About twenty-five were
injured.
THE treasurer of Daviess County, Ind,
Is short several thousand dollars in his ac-
counts, owing to his allowing himself TO
be imposed upon by pretended friends.
On the 9th, during the launching Of .
small vessel at Milwaukee, Wis, two hun.
dred people were carried down by a falling
roof, on which they had secured places of
vantage to witness the launch. Many of
them were either crushed to death or
drowned, and many more injured.
BY a fire on the outskirts OF London on
the 9th Sl,2o0,0O0 worth of property was
destroyed and Ave lives lost
THE American messenger boy who was
sent TO London by Messrs. Frohman and
Sothern TO distribute the souvenirs Of "The
Highest Bidder" has been arrested for vio-
lation Of Her Majesty's postal laws. His
employers viii look after him.
THE inhabitants Of the township of Tay.
mouth, Saginaw County, Mich, are in a
state bordering on terror at the depreda.
tions of gang of young toughs, mostly
strangers, who rob houses, compel house.
holders TO get up dinners for them, and
who enforce their demands at the muzzles
of shotguns.
On the 1th Nationalist and Orange riot
occurred near Belfast. One man was killed
and many were injured.
OK the night of the 9TH Frank Clark was
shot at Eaton Rapids, Mich, by John Will-
iams, and died the next morning. Clark
insisted on being introduced to II young
woman with whom Clark attended the
Salvation Army meeting, and being re-
fused he assaulted Williams and was shot.